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Kobe Bryant

July 2024

  • Kobe and Joe Bryant after a Lakers- 76ers game in 1996. Joe Bryant played in the NBA with the 76ers

    Joe ‘Jellybean’ Bryant, former NBA player and father of Kobe, dies at age of 69

    Joe ‘Jellybean’ Bryant, the father of the late Kobe Bryant, has died at the age of 69

March 2024

  • The statue was unveiled outside the home of the Lakers in February.

    ‘Vom Wafer’: Lakers forced to correct errors on statue dedicated to Kobe Bryant

    The Los Angeles Lakers have said they are correcting several errors on a statue dedicated to their late star, Kobe Bryant

February 2024

  • Lakers unveil 19ft statue of Kobe Bryant – video

  • Attendees view a statue of former Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant after its unveiling outside the NBA basketball team's arena, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

    ‘What excellence looks like’: 19ft Kobe Bryant statue revealed at Lakers arena

January 2024

  • Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Dončić scored a franchise-record 73 points, tied for the fourth-most in NBA history and surpassed only by Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant.

    Mavericks’ Luka Dončić pours in 73 points, fourth most in NBA history

    Dončić scored a franchise-record 73 points on Friday, tied for the fourth-most in NBA history and surpassed only by Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant

December 2023

  • Police car with red, white and blue lights.

    Judge sentences Black child, 10, to three months of probation for peeing in public

    Mississippi judge also orders child to write a book report on Kobe Bryant after officers arrested him for urinating in a parking lot

November 2023

  • Reggie Miller of Indiana Pacers defends Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls during Game 7 of the 1998 Eastern Conference finals.

    Sportblog
    From Mahorn to Jordan: a brief guide to the NBA’s finest trashtalkers

    When it comes to the NBA’s best ever practitioners in the bitter science of verbal sparring, these 10 players stand above the rest

August 2023

  • Pau Gasol, who will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, was a six-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA team selection.

    Pau Gasol, Spain’s humble star, brings legacy of humanity to Hall of Fame

    The towering Spaniard won titles with Kobe Bryant and helped pave the way for today’s glut of international stars. But he’ll be remembered just as much for his healthy perspective

May 2023

  • The Lakers’ LeBron James, right, and the Warriors’ Stephen Curry embrace after Friday night’s Game 6 of their Western Conference semi-final tie.

    Sportblog
    The epic LeBron James-Steph Curry rivalry delivered once again. Enjoy them while you can

    Claire de Lune
    LeBron v Steph has been the defining rivalry of my basketball life. Their latest chapter did not disappoint, but it’s clear their special rivalry is nearer to the end than the beginning

March 2023

  • Vanessa Bryant leaves court after a hearing into the sharing of photos of her husband and daughter in August 2022

    Kobe Bryant’s family agree to $28.5m settlement after crash photos shared

    Los Angeles county has resolved the remaining claims in a lawsuit over deputies and firefighters sharing graphic photos of the NBA star and eight others

August 2022

  • Vanessa Bryant leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse, Los Angeles, California, USA - 19 Aug 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (13134637e) Vanessa Bryant and soccer player Sydney Leroux leave the Federal Court after testify in the lawsuit over graphic photos taken by first responders at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, basketball legend Kobe Bryant, their teenage daughter and seven others, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022 in Los Angeles. Vanessa Bryant leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse, Los Angeles, California, USA - 19 Aug 2022

    Vanessa Bryant awarded $16m in suit over photos of Kobe’s crash

  • Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, leaving a federal courthouse in Los Angeles on 10 August 2022.

    ‘I live in fear’: Vanessa Bryant testifies at trial over Kobe’s crash images

  • Vanessa and Kobe Bryant had four children together

    Kobe Bryant crash photos were shared by deputies as ‘gossip’, court hears

  • Vanessa and Kobe Bryant and their daughters, Natalia Bryant and Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant.

    Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over photos of Kobe’s corpse begins in Los Angeles

January 2022

  • TOPSHOT-US-MEMORIAL-BRYANT<br>TOPSHOT - A bronze sculpture by artist Dan Medina, depicting Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna Bryant, and the names of those who died, is displayed as a one-day temporary memorial at the site of a 2020 helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on January 26, 2022. - Lakers star Kobe Bryant died with his daughter Gianna in a tragic helicopter crash which killed nine people on January 27, 2020. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Statue of Kobe Bryant and daughter unveiled at site of fatal helicopter crash

    NBA legend and daughter Gigi died in hillside crash in 2020 along with seven others

November 2021

  • Vanessa Bryant and Kobe Bryant had been married for 18 years at the time of his death

    Kobe Bryant’s widow will not have to undergo mental examination over crash photos

    Kobe Bryant’s widow won’t have to undergo psychiatric testing for her lawsuit over graphic photos of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basketball star

October 2021

  • Vanessa Bryant

    Kobe Bryant widow first heard of basketball star’s death via phone alerts

    ‘RIP Kobe’ notifications informed Vanessa Bryant of husband’s death in air crash, according to court documents

May 2021

  • Michael Jordan accompanied Vanessa Bryant on to stage for Saturday’s ceremony

    Vanessa Bryant: Kobe ‘laughing in heaven’ as he is enshrined in Hall of Fame

  • Basketball stars Bill Russell and Elgin Baylor, Los Angeles, 1966.

    The world’s greatest sports stars shot by Walter Iooss Jr – in pictures

March 2021

  • FILE PHOTO: 1st anniversary of Kobe Bryant’s death<br>FILE PHOTO: 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party – Arrivals – Beverly Hills, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Kobe Bryant holds his Oscar for Best Animated Short, with wife Vanessa. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo SEARCH “1ST ANNIVERSARY OF KOBE BRYANT’S DEATH” FOR THE PHOTOS.

    Kobe Bryant: deputies allegedly shared graphic photos from site of fatal crash

    Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit names four deputies accused of spreading ‘gratuitous photos of the dead’
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